I’m still in the process of downloading and processing the ideas and next steps that came out of BarCamp NewsInnovation Philadelphia on Saturday, but I wanted to share some quick links that help give a sense for the kind of day it was.
I also managed to sit down with Sean Blanda, who organized the event [...]
We’re all aware that washingtonpost.com has been able to do some cool stuff in recent years. One of their web ninjas, Steven King – editor of innovations – presented at BarCamp News Innovation Philadelphia and one of the lesser known ideas caught my attention.
It had to do with the way comments were visual shown in [...]
To kick off BarCamp NewsInnovation Philadelphia, I was invited by Anna Curran – and by invited I mean I just happened to be standing next to her – to participate in a panel discussion on branding and whether the future relies more on the invidual than the institution.
A very timely discussion since organizations are looking [...]
I’ve been presented with a great opportunity that I hope other news innovators will follow and offer advice and guidance when needed. I am documenting this adventure at the News Tribe.
The company where I work, Gazette Communications, is undergoing a huge transformation. Part of that includes rebuilding and re-envisioning a local news and information web [...]
About halfway through my freshman year of high school, I was approached by my English teach Mrs. Griffiths and asked if I’d be interested in joining the school newspaper. She saw something in my writing, but more intriguing to her – she would later reveal – was the way I asked questions.
Since that day in [...]
This past week has been one of a personal high and a very sad professional low, and I don’t think there is any better time to remind all of us to find that thing that lets us forget about life for awhile.
The high came about a week ago when I was part of a group [...]
In three corners of the country this weekend a tremendous opportunity will take place to help shape the future of journalism. But with that opportunity comes tremendous responsibility.
Journalists, technologists, web developers, students, tech business dudes, professors, professionals and others will take part in ad hoc gatherings for NewsInnovation barcamps in Portland and Chicago on Saturday, [...]
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We in the media industry are not asking one right question often enough at a time where it could not be more critical.
There seems to be many random, impulsive ideas about how media companies can generate revenue quickly in a time of economic decline and a where the century-old business [...]
I’ve been talking a lot lately about the need to stop talking and start doing. We’ll here is some more of that as a list of projects to kickoff the Reynolds Journalism Institutes’ news collaboratory was put out by Amy Gahran.
In assessing the list of projects it’s important to keep in mind two things that [...]
How can you measure how much a community loves you? Can you turn love into money?
BarCamp NewsInnovation at the Univ. of Missouri ended this past Saturday with a discussion on how media companies in a digital world measure success.
The group came up with three areas we’d like to measure but haven’t yet figured out how [...]